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Deformation Theory Seminar

Wednesday, December 6, 2006 - 3:00pm

Julia Hartmann

Penn and Univ. of Heidelberg

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Note time change - 2nd half of a double header

This (second) talk gives an introduction to differential Galois theory, which is a Galois theory for linear homogeneous differential equations. It focuses on the inverse problem: Which groups occur as differential Galois groups over a given field? Key cases include fields F = K(x), where K is algebraically closed or of the form K=k((t)). We generalize the patching methods introduced in the first talk to this situation, and show how these yield answers to the inverse problem. (Note: This second talk is on joint work with David Harbater. It is motivated by the first talk and generalizes methods presented there, but it can be understood independently.)